Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

ur;ce Of silver in New York yesterda.
was 9s2. ..xo M.ud Gran
,er at the Grand.
now sidewalk is being put down or
Academy street.
No were no bullion shipments by tn
Pacific Express company Yesterday.
nh;+o hats and other evidences OF spring
"hl.v cont and winter will only he 8
memory. ,;u +,ko ,..,
ne the PRESBYTERIAN Church at 2 O'Clock
this afternoon.
The last of those who nave been detaineo
pn+tp at the various hotels by the wash
n,ts left yesterday morning.
uossrs Curtis e. Majors yesterday To-
.od . mine north OF the Clipper Mill. and
camed it the Seventeenth OF Ireland"
The principal streets were fairly alive
~ neonle Yesterday and every other nan
SSaJ q niece OF green ribbon conspicuously
displayed.
H. lanes McCaig, agent OF the Northern
panifc in Butte. was presented by his wife
.:.h a lob. girl baby yesterday. Both
"otber and child are doing well.
In the Probate Court yesterday Henry
,.aoba administrator OF the estate OF PC.
T.ow bridge, filed his final accounts and Pc
.ition for distribution OF the same.
IN the street yesterday $2.35 was freely
~ for West Granite. One thousand
a Jm of Black Pine sold at $1.1O; small
sots Of Pyrenees changed hands at $1.5O.
I,,dce Evan Herbert will hear the EVIL
lance in the cause of the Territory vs.. Jerry
Rrosshanan who is charged with coafisca-
!;nr TO his own use some hay in Browns
guch.
Two men were arrested for stealing hay
IN the park in Jefferson county and were
.nnmitted to Jail yesterday on a warrant
;.Sned bv the Justice of the Peace at Walk
ervile.
Mr.. McDonough, the Manager and Super.
iptendent OF the gas works, is going to
erect gas works for Spokane Falls, Wash
jngton Territory. He will leave for there
in a few days.
It was reported yesterday on the street
that Jack Dempsey, the champion middle
weight pugilist, had..arrived in this city from
Garrison on the DELAYED train. But up to
a late hour we could trace it to no reliable
source.
The energy displayed by the street clean
ing department OF Butte knocks Hercules
contract with the Augean stables into a
cooked hat. As much as two dirt carts
meardered around Park street west yes
tprday afternoon.
When the branches from the Montana
Union up to the various mills around
Rutte are finished there will be thirteen
miles in all. The Union Pacific is now con-
s%tructing them for the Montana Union,
which will operate them when completed
under leases.
deed in escrow has been recently execu-
led bv owners of the Major Budd mine to
FL. Carter OF Helena, n eastern parties,
the consideration being $15O,OOO. Messrs.
Hauser, Hotter and the Others mentioned
in Yesterdays Inter- Mountain as having
had the mine bonded to them have no con-
nortion whatever with the property in ques-
ton.
The ladies OF the Eastern Star have en-
caged Renshaw Hall for their ball this even
inc and Caplice Hall has been retained for
the overflow expected. The success the
ladies have met with in selling tickets war
rants the expectation that the second
hall will be necessary. There will be a full
turnout from all the societies in the city.
All who have uniform will wear it, and re-
gala of all kinds will be conspicuous.
There was practicing Iearly all day yes
terday, at Caplice Hall, by the piano per
formers at the Turnverein concert Sunday
night. The new piano was placed there
and tuned, and Messrs. Kronberg. Werlitz.
Wolff and Others will perform some OF the
finest music heard on that instrument in
public for a long time. The amusement
furnished will be something unusual in
Butte, and the hall should be crowded to
repletion on the evening OF the entertain
ment. |
In Justice Dingevon's court on Wednes-
day evening was tried the case OF Short
sleeve against Mary Guyette and Peter
Keisier, partners. 1t was an action against
an absconding debtor, and owing to the
TACT that a woman cannot be incarcerated
for debt, Mr.. Keisier had to tax the brunt
ofthe proceedings. He was convicted and
sent to jail, and last evening at z O'Clock a
motion was made by Mr.. Duffy, counsel Tor
the prisoner. to discharge Keisier on insult
fciency of the affidavit on which he was
first arrested. The prisoner was dis.
charged, but was no sooner at liberty than
he was rearrested on the same charge, upon
the same evidence and the third trial was
in progress last night.
A young lady complained yesterday to
Marshal Jolley that a purse OF money had
been stolen from her room on East Copper
street. The Marshal accompanied her to
the house and proposed to begin the search
in her own room. "Oh, it's not the least
bit OF use" said she, i've turned every
article in it over and over again, and it
amt there. It's somebody in the house
has stolen it," "Well, let's begin there
anyhow said Mr.. Jolley. And the first
thing he searched vas the bed, and on pull
ing back the mattress there lay the purse.
How did it get there? Oh, the party that
took it., seeing the squeal made, put it
there, OF course" said The Marshal. i
meet cases like hat every day."
The Beehive was the center OF observa-
ton last night from 8 until $50 O'Clock.
An impossible crowd was gathered on the
opposite gazing at illuminated
scenes from famous places cast on a white
ground erected above that store by a
magic lantern on the balcony OF the store
on the opposite side OF the street. The
light did not work any too well Inc the re-
snlt vas rather a failure, many OF the
scenes being unacceptable from the side
walk. As a rule, it may as well be under
stood by the managers OF this exhibition
that the people in this land OF freedom
want all the light on a subject that al be
concentrated thereupon, and that they Will
to realize the anticipations they have
by their abortive attempt until
they can at least rival the brilliancy OF our
lights.
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